was being released and to get back to the united states. what happened there? >> guest: it had been how word and dan's understanding that the pilots would come home and drive the commercial planes and the u.s. government insisted on using the government plans which outraged not only howard and a ban but also the resist and everybody had been involved in that operation. there was a lot of criticism for this trip. many people seem to think that he was basically acting as a stooge for the communist north vietnam. how did they respond to some of the criticisms coming out? >> guest: no way he responded to all criticisms in regard to his entire war stance, this is an evil war. we should never have been there in the first place. we are doing roofless horrible things, killing multitudes of people. though war has to be ended and any jester we can make to that end we want to go on making. estimate his political activity would go on throughout his life in the solidarity being impressed by the regime's and the opposition to apartheid fairly soon he would be most famous for